The Giant

Dan Barry on Barry Bonds (free version): On this night, children lean over the dugout lip with baseballs and pens, and chirp like nestlings, "Barry, Barry," innocent of the knowledge that Bonds is hoarding his own memorabilia, much to the consternation of the Hall of Fame. ("I'm not worried about the Hall," he recently said. "I take care of me.")



And on this night, Bonds bats four times, as calm in the batter's box as a man at a bus stop. The opposing team walks him intentionally twice, rather than suffer the consequences of one of his swings. He also hits a line-drive single, his 1,468th, and a rocketing double, his 594th, that nearly clears the wall in right-center field. No one else…